I hold a Master degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, and a Master degree in Samfunnssikkerhet (Societal Safety/Security) from the University of Tromsø. I have previously worked in the field of urban security, and have studied the process of reforming the military police in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

My PhD-project focuses on the affective and aspirational dimensions of mountaineering in western Norway, and examines how people try to create happinness and well-being for themselves through regular immersions in the mountains.

Among my main areas of interests are masculinity and gender studies, political anthropology, state formation, affect theory and human-nature relations.

2018 Kjønnsperspektiv i forskningen. Presentation at the Department of Geography, UoB, 8th mars.

2018 How to integrate gender perspectives in research towards the SDGs. Presentation at workshop on Critical approaches to gender, sustainability and futurity, at the SDG 2018 Conference in Bergen, 9th February.

My PhD-project focuses on the affective and aspirational dimensions of mountaineering in western Norway, and examines how people try to create happinness and well-being for themselves through regular immersions in the mountains. I am particularly concerned with the gendered dynamics of these activities, in their importance in the symbolic construction of norwegian national identity, and in their relation to changing understandings of happiness and the good life at a moment in time characterized by dysopian imaginaries of a future of ecological and social collapse.

Gender, Race and Urban (in)Securities in Rio de Janeiro (2018-2019)

Co-cordinator w/Margit Ystanes

This research project explores the gendered and racialized dimensions of urban (in)security in Rio de Janeiro, and their relations to the growth of right-wing authoritarianism in Brazil. The empirical scope of the contributions centers on the processes leading up to the organization of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics in Rio.